L is for Sheep is about language development in the early years and how practitioners can best prepare all children for the structured teaching of reading. It explores ways of nurturing, in a broad and rich language curriculum, the phonological and phonemic awareness which children need before they can begin a formal reading programme.
It carries no particular torch for any single approach, whether it be synthetic phonics, analytic phonics, the searchlight method or any other. Instead it is based on the collective views of 14 knowledgeable and well-known teachers and writers who write about the subject from the standpoint of their own extensive experience.